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Once upon a time, there lived a girl whose story was not her own. . .

So the story goes: Neglected and abused by her family, eclipsed by her elder and more beautiful sister, a young girl longs for happily-ever-after, for something, someone to rescue her. She is soon…

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Dreadful Wind and Rain is named for an old folk ballad which describes the drowning of one sister by another, but it also echoes the story of Rachel and Leah in the Old Testament and elements of many ancient myths.

Gilliam crafts a powerful poetic voice that uses the framework of sibling rivalry to tell the story of a contemporary woman who throws off society's limited expectations for women, leaves a destructive marriage, and disentangles herself from the web of manipulative family members to find her own fierce voice and build a life for herself.

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